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Show NORRISTOWN OFFICERS FEAR VIOLENCE IF KIDNAPPER OF COUGHLIN BABY IS FOUND The ladder by which kidnappers reached, the bedroom of Blakely Cougfalin, and a police dog trying ! to pick up the trail of the kidnapper:. Inset The stolen baby, and below, Mrs Conghlin. the grief-; stricken mother and two other sons, David 5, and McLean, 8, who constantly cry for their baby brother. I , The ladder by which Kidnapers reached the bedroom of Blakely Coughlin and n police doe trying to pick up the trail of the kidnapers. Iti- :sel: The stolen bahy. and !elov, Mrs. Coughlin The Ri i-f-strfeken mother and two other sons. David 5. and McLean. Mc-Lean. 8, h constantly cry for their baby mother. Bi LORRY V 1 ( N. t. A Staff Correspondent. NOKi;iSTCWN. Ta.. June 12, f- j fictals of Norri.stown are getting ready io give protection lo the kidnaper of ' the Coughlfn baby if he is found. They I , helleve that Montgomery county peo- pie are so thoroughly nroused that It will be no easy tusk to pre vent vio-i lence from beinp lone. It has been rumored that members of the state constuhularv will Le rush-' d here. Pcopli arc Peeved ai Soughlln's Stand The peopJe of thp. county arc getting I Into a mood by no means pleasant, i-a i-a result of the attitude taken by the-' Coughlin family The Coughljna have clone everything to preserve the utmost ut-most secrecy in the ca.s' and have Consistently refused to talk over the case with nowspapev men. most of the information having hern given out through their attorney or Mrs Cough -lin s brother, W. H. Mott. Hy sheer accident one of the most Important cluea in the case has been lost. On the morning after the kidnaping kid-naping footprints of a man and woman wo-man leading across a field from the Coughlin honiv were found. Ladder Plays an Important Pari Later In the day, however, these footprints were entirely obliterated by a man who was harrowing the field Most Important In the caso is the ladder which was used to gain entry Into the room in whuh the baby git ;t. Tins ladder was obtained from a house under construction u few yards away from the Coughlin home. it seems certain that the kidnapersl knew of the whereabouts of this lad- yei and the position of furniture In the Coughlin home, thereby adding to, .the belief that the kidnaper was en-j Itlrely familiar with affairs of the j Coughlins. The Coughlin home g situated at the slde'of a road running from Nor-Iristnwn Nor-Iristnwn n one side is the Plymouth Valley, and on ihe other, the Schuylkill Schuyl-kill Valley. The road Is well traveled', land H is hardly believable that an au- tomoblle could have stopped for anVl I length of time on the road without being noticed it Is this fact thati leads to the belief that the kidnapers kept their machine on the road in the; Plymouth Valley below. Detectives Working ' " Slim lacs I Detectives working on the case are baffled. With the exception of the! footprints, the fingerprints on the win-, .(lows, and a report that a man and woman driving an automobile wer 'seen some distance from the vicinity, I I they have not a single thing to work , on. |